Unisa has successfully approached the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) for an urgent interdict against personnel in a bid to continue final exams for hundreds of thousands of students, Beeld reports. Unisa says in court papers the exams are being threatened by employees under the urging of Mpho Moses Morolane and Malebo Charline Nkoane on the Muckleneuk campus.

According to Unisa, Morolane and Nkoane mobilised a group of employees responsible for distributing exam papers across the country and the exam papers were not distributed as scheduled. The exams started in the first week of October. The workers are seasonal workers engaged through labour brokers.

Morolane apparently wants to force Unisa to employ some of the seasonal workers whose contracts have expired. The court granted the interdict against Morolane, Nkoane and all other aggrieved workers preventing them from disrupting examinations. The court ordered the police to assist the university in enforcing the order.

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